God’s Design

For Your
Marriage
September 28 , 2008
Pastor John Isaacs
KingsWay Community Church
No God = No Design
Marriage is
Humanity’s Own
Social & Cultural
Invention.
 There Is A God,
And There Is An
Intelligent Design.
Humanity Made In
HIS Image
Genesis 1:26
Let Us make man in our
image, in our likeness.

1. To Be Self-Aware
To be self conscious, reflective,
knowing who we are, and able
to better ourselves.
Genesis 1:26
Let Us make man in our
image, in our likeness.

2. To Be Moral
To understand right from
wrong, to have pleasure in
doing right.
Genesis 1:26
Let Us make man in our
image, in our likeness.

3. To Be Loving
To love one another in self-
sacrificing ways. To choose the
best for others.
Genesis 1:26
Let Us make man in our
image, in our likeness.

4. To Be Creative
To imagine and to have the
power to make things. To
procreate.
God Designed
Marriage
Great Marriages
Come From Doing It
God’s Way!
Genesis 2:24
For this cause a man shall
leave his father and his
mother, and shall cleave to
his wife; and they shall
become one flesh.
God’s Design
Marriage was designed
to be a lifelong covenant
bond between one man
and one woman.
God’s Design
1. Complementary
Companionship
Genesis 2:18
It is not good for the man to be
alone; I will make him a helper
suitable for him.
God’s Design
2. Procreation
Genesis 1:28
Then God blessed them, and
God said to them, "Be fruitful
and multiply; fill the earth and
subdue it; have dominion …”
God’s Design
3. Picture of Christ and
His Church
Ephesians 5:31-32
For this reason a man shall leave his
father and mother and be joined to his
wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
This is a great mystery, but I speak
concerning Christ and the church.
God’s Design
4. God’s Glory
Romans 11:36
For of Him and through Him
and to Him are all things, to
whom be glory forever. Amen.
What Happens
When Man
Abandons
God’s Design?
Romans 1:18-32
18 But God shows his anger from
heaven against all sinful, wicked
people who suppress the truth by
their wickedness.
19 They know the truth about God
because he has made it obvious to
them.
Romans 1:18-32 (cont.)
20 For ever since the world was
created, people have seen the
earth and sky. Through everything
God made, they can clearly see
his invisible qualities—his eternal
power and divine nature. So they
have no excuse for not knowing
God.
Romans 1:18-32 (cont.)
21 Yes, they knew God, but they
wouldn’t worship him as God or
even give him thanks. And they
began to think up foolish ideas of
what God was like. As a result,
their minds became dark and
confused.
Romans 1:18-32 (cont.)
22 Claiming to be wise, they
instead became utter fools.
23 And instead of worshiping the
glorious, ever-living God, they
worshiped idols made to look like
mere people and birds and
animals and reptiles.
Romans 1:18-32 (cont.)
24 So God abandoned them to do
whatever shameful things their
hearts desired. As a result, they
did vile and degrading things with
each other’s bodies.
25 They traded the truth about
God for a lie. So they worshiped
and served the things God created
Romans 1:18-32 (cont.)
instead of the Creator himself, who
is worthy of eternal praise! Amen.
26 That is why God abandoned
them to their shameful desires.
Even the women turned against
the natural way to have sex and
instead indulged in sex with each
other.
Romans 1:18-32 (cont.)
27 And the men, instead of having
normal sexual relations with
women, burned with lust for each
other. Men did shameful things
with other men, and as a result of
this sin, they suffered within
themselves the penalty they
deserved.
Romans 1:18-32 (cont.)
28 Since they thought it foolish to
acknowledge God, he abandoned
them to their foolish thinking and
let them do things that should
never be done.
29 Their lives became full of every
kind of wickedness, sin, greed,
hate, envy, murder, quarreling,
Romans 1:18-32 (cont.)
deception, malicious behavior, and
gossip.
30 They are backstabbers, haters
of God, insolent, proud, and
boastful. They invent new ways of
sinning, and they disobey their
parents.
31 They refuse to understand,
Romans 1:18-32 (cont.)
break their promises, are
heartless, and have no mercy.
32 They know God’s justice
requires that those who do these
things deserve to die, yet they do
them anyway. Worse yet, they
encourage others to do them, too.
Romans 1:24
So God abandoned them to do
whatever shameful things their
hearts desired.

1. Sexual Promiscuity
15 million new STD infections
in U.S.A. reported each year.
Romans 1:24
So God abandoned them to do
whatever shameful things their
hearts desired.

1. Sexual Promiscuity
10 billion dollars each year
spent in treatment of STDs.
Romans 1:24
So God abandoned them to do
whatever shameful things their
hearts desired.

1. Sexual Promiscuity
48,589,993 abortions in
U.S.A. since 1973.
Romans 1:24
So God abandoned them to do
whatever shameful things their
hearts desired.

1. Sexual Promiscuity
One out of Three ninth
graders report they have had
sexual intercourse.
Romans 1:24
So God abandoned them to do
whatever shameful things their
hearts desired.

2. Pornography
$40 Billion Business in U.S.A.
More than spent on all major
sports.
Romans 1:24
So God abandoned them to do
whatever shameful things their
hearts desired.

2. Pornography
70% of 18 – 35 year old men
have visited a website in past
month.
Romans 1:24
So God abandoned them to do
whatever shameful things their
hearts desired.

3. Adultery
30% - 40% of women.
50% of men.
Romans 1:24
So God abandoned them to do
whatever shameful things their
hearts desired.

4. Homosexuality
3% of Americans
rapidly becoming accepted to
normalize non-heterosexual.
Romans 1:24
So God abandoned them to do
whatever shameful things their
hearts desired.

5. Pedophilia
4% of American Population
meets the diagnosis criteria.
God’s Design
Marriage was designed
to be a lifelong covenant
bond between one man
and one woman.